Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were later acquitted of illegally importing arms and ammunition for use in the North , they were dismissed from the cabinet for their part in the affair . |
| 2 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 3 | But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes . |
| 4 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 5 | They were built from the materials closest to hand and so have an utterly distinct regional character . |
| 6 | Ammianus also thought that they were descended from the Romans . |
| 7 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 8 | They were made from the road , without Mr Freitag even crossing the garden gate let alone probing around the bedrooms . |
| 9 | In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting . |
| 10 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 11 | Seated together on a bench seat by a warm hearth , it seemed to Joan that they were isolated from the intrigue and controversy that were presently raging around the royal family . |
| 12 | They were isolated from the crowd , their arms linked , the woman gazing up in to his face . |
| 13 | There they were dragged from the truck to Mr Stokle 's Vauxhall Viva car , which had followed . |
| 14 | Creed opened the glass panel one morning as they were returning from the airport and said , ‘ Where do you live , Spaghetti ? ’ |
| 15 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 16 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 17 | Two days later letters arrived saying they were banned from the club . |
| 18 | They were doomed from the day — admittedly belated — in 2007 when the European Community 's economic and monetary union ( EMU ) became reality and its 29 currencies merged in the ecu . |
| 19 | ‘ They were doomed from the moment they entered the Net , ’ Lacuna said . |
| 20 | They were established from the beginning of 1910 . |
| 21 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 22 | A checklist of predictors was applied to the maternity notes of all non-Asian women who had delivered a child under consultant care when they were discharged from the maternity unit . |
| 23 | The buyer failed to collect them and they were stolen from the seller 's warehouse . |
| 24 | No they they were paid from the people that employed them . |
| 25 | This area was used for receiving the hops and for spreading them out to cool after they were removed from the kilns . |
| 26 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 27 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 28 | ‘ Reference to the transcript of the judgment in that case however reveals that the decision did not turn on concealment in the shopping bag but was expressly upon the ground that the goods were appropriated when they were taken from the shelves . |
| 29 | Those two quotes about ’ absolute rubbish ’ and ’ a quick fix ’ are not my words ; they were taken from the speech made on Thursday last week by the chairman of British Coal . |
| 30 | Later they were dropped from the cast . |